9/09 BLOOMINGTON

Sooooo, after sleeping a good sleep we drove over to Bloomington, IN. I'm trying to think of fun things to talk about, but again, it's past 3am and sleeping sounds way better than typing out anything clever.









Matt and Kim and Totally Michael. The venue was playing Totally Michael between sets. It was totally sweeeeeet.




Bridey the AM! merchandiser. And kim.


Tonight was also the VMAs. We missed Britney but did see Chris Brown and Rhianna. We had to drag Matt from the tv as Kanye came on so the guys could close down the venue. And umm, Fergie? Are you fucking kidding me?

9/08 Toledo

Another show:



I tried to get some shots when Against Me! were on, cause holy shit, kids were dropping on their heads left and right. The AM! stage crew had quite a night catching crowd surfers. But I suck at taking pictures with my mediocre camera. Sorry.

9/07 Bufff

NY. Not too much to say.



Merch was far away from the stage, but they had this sweet screen.


Yup.

9/06 Northampton

Pearl Street is actually the place where I saw my very first show. A ska show, downstairs. And I actually hadn't even been back since. About 12 years or so. A bunch of kids from Brattleboro came down making it a lot more fun for me. But the crowd was awesome in general, and I wish I had gotten some good shots of people crowd surfing.

Matt and his mom.




Trask.


Let's see if this is the only picture of me all tour.


Chris doing the Miller Chiller.


Drove up to Matts parents house after the show. I got to sleep in Matts old bed. Tiiiight.

9/05 No sleep till

BROOOOOOKLYN.

OK. Shit. This show was at the new Williamsburg Music Hall, which is the old North 6. I guess the people from Bowery bought the place and totally gutted it. Suffice to say, the building was NOT done when we got there. When Against Me! showed up at one they were still welding railings in place and loading sound system software. The walls weren't painted and there was plaster dust all over everything. Basically it was fucking awesome, and felt more like a warehouse show.

Kim and Pat.


Johnson in my hoody.








Since we were only like 5 blocks from Matt and Kims house, I had a lot to drink. And then Kim asked me to drive us home. Luckily Matt and Kims manager Kevin asked if I wanted to get some pizza with him, so I escaped any driving duties. Later in the evening I met up with everyone at the Levy and played some Buck Hunter and learned that the iPhone is now $200 cheaper.

1st showwww

So, I forgot how hard it would be to get internet on tour. Well, actually it's not really that hard to find internet. I just don't really have any time to USE the internet. Also I'm not feeling particularly inspired right now.

I also forgot how hard it is to take pictures regularly. I've gotten many bad, boring pictures like this one:



This is Matt and Kim killing it in Poughkeepsie. I promise I'll try and get some photos that aren't them on stage. But I'm so tired right now, and those are the only shots I've gotten so far. Fuuuuuuuck.

Trying not to be stressed.

IT BEGINS!

First show with Against Me! started today. In Poughkeepsie, New York. Fun show. Against Me! dudes are SO fucking nice. We could literally fit the Matt and Kim tour van into the Against Me! tour bus trailer. Literally.

Not much to tell. Against Me! are awesome live. They played some old songs. It was great.

I looked down at my keys and thought they pretty much summed up the whole tour:



Van key, earplugs and stage pass. Welcome to tour, baby!

Holy shit it's Manhattan

Matt and Kim in general try and stay away from the city, but they got offered a 'secret' show in Manhattan for Vice magazine. I guess the show was to promote Vice's online music video website VBS and some other strange online virtual manhattan site, VLES.

The show was this good: My shirt got ripped off, I got dropped from the ceiling crowd surfing and ended up doing this to Matt and Kims phone that was in my pocked "for safe keeping":



First show. I'm awesome at my job.

I only had my cell phone, so this was the best picture I got:



As you can see, there were video cameras. Hopefully most of the show will end up on the internet soon.

Tour hasn't even technically started and things are off to an awesome start.

New York, New York!

I made it safely from Seattle to New York via Jet Blue on Thursday. Now, I don't want to endorse Jet Blue publicly, but man, there is something to be said about having your own personal TV on a flight. They literally had to pull me off the plain after we docked. Hey, I only get to watch actual TV so often...

The past couple days here have already been craaazy. And not the kind of crazy where you wake up hung over the next morning with strange sores on the insides of your legs. The kind of crazy where we try and determine how many shirts we can pack in the van. I've also spent some time going to be post office and on the phone calling venues. Oh man I can't wait till we actually hit the fucking road.

So, I'll call this the pre-first Against Me! tour blog entry. No pictures. Nothing fun. But I felt I needed some sort of intro for this tour, so I guess this will be it. Following suit, here are the tour dates. Take notice of the RIDICULOUS routing. Who booked this again?

Sep 4 2007 Poughkeepsie, New York
Sep 5 2007 Brooklyn, New York
Sep 6 2007 Northampton, Massachusetts
Sep 7 2007 Buffalo, New York
Sep 8 2007 Toledo, Ohio
Sep 9 2007 Bloomington, Indiana
Sep 11 2007 Lawrence, Kansas
Sep 12 2007 Boulder, Colorado
Sep 13 2007 Albuquerque, New Mexico
Sep 14 2007 Las Vegas, Nevada
Sep 15 2007 Morrison, Colorado
Sep 17 2007 Los Angeles, California
Sep 18 2007 Reno, Nevada
Sep 19 2007 Petaluma, California
Sep 20 2007 Eugene, Oregon
Sep 21 2007 Bend, Oregon
Sep 23 2007 Portland, Oregon
Sep 25 2007 Chico, California
Sep 26 2007 Santa Cruz, California
Sep 27 2007 Anaheim, California
Sep 28 2007 San Diego, California
Oct 2 2007 Chicago, Illinois


**BIRTHDAY ALERT** I will be turning 24 on October 4th. We will be at Notre Dame playing a private show. That makes two birthdays in a row spent on tour with Matt and Kim.

I can't promise anything spectacular, but I promise more pictures in the near future. Stay tuned. Wish me luck.

Brooklyn Sunset

OK, this is an old picture. It was taken the night before I left NYC headed back to Seattle for Block Party, taken from the roof of Matt & Kim's apartment building.

But hey, I'm stuck in Portland for another few hours because stupid Amtrak decided to stop putting baggage cars on their stupid trains so I can't bring my stupid bike back to Seattle with me so I had to bike back to the house and drop it off, missing my original train.

For a camera phone, this is a pretty pretty shot.